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Ghost sign for The Three Nuns on Church Gate in Loughborough, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for The Three Nuns pub, reading: 'The Three Nuns / Get into the Habit'. There are three nun figures positioned in the centre. In the bottom left-hand side, there is a finger pointing to the right with the words 'Car Park'. This sign was painted between 2012 and 2014 but was painted over in 2017. The Three Nuns is an Everards pub
Alwyne Watson interviewed by Alex Hatcher, 20 July 2015
No full textAlwyne Watson (AW) interviewed by Alex Hatcher (AH), 20 July 2015. AW talks about his time in Army service before moving to Braunstone as a Police Officer, describes role. Talks about housing in former Army camp and the later prefabricated homes. Recalls events that took place in Braunstone Park e.g. the Braunstone Carnival and County Show. AW talks about the differences between policing in the 1960s and present day, compares modern Braunstone to when he first worked there. Talks about his relationship with Braunstone School, moved to new premises twenty years ago. Story about land mine dropped in Braunstone Park during Second World War. AW mentions his research into the use of Braunstone Park during and after the war and provides some details from his research. Talks about the local response to the presence of the American Soldiers and the racial tensions between the Black and White Americans
Video [audio only] of a former taxi driver who has memories of the Cultural Quarter.
No full textA video (audio only, duration 1 minute and 43 seconds) of a man talking about his memories of the Cultural Quarter in the 1980s, 1990s, he mentions several of the nightclubs and the Leicester United Caribbean Centre.My memories of the Cultural Quarter probably go back to the 80s. I remember going to the Spectrum nightclub, a few times actually. I think there were hip hop nights I went to. I think I went to a house night as well. It was quite new in those days, house music and stuff, so I always remember the first house nights as well. I remember just seeing loads of different people from all over Leicester […] I think there was a lot of people from Highfields there. Because I was actually from Belgrave so, I don’t think a lot of my friends came from Belgrave to Spectrum, I think there were only maybe 16 or so, maybe 17. I don’t really remember. But we had some really good times at the Spectrum […] but we never really went to it […] reggae nights and kind of late night ‘blues’ type of events. To be honest, in the early 1990s, I used to be a taxi driver, so I used to bring a lot of people to places like the LUCA. I remember dropping them off early in the evening and then coming home with stories wh
Video [audio only] of David Cole formerly of Leicester Expressive Arts.
No full textA video (audio only, duration 2 minutes 1 second) of David Cole talking about his memories of the Leicester Expressive Arts organisation that was based in the Leicester United Caribbean Centre (LUCA) between 1985 and 1990. Audio ends abruptly.Hello, my name is David Cole. I was involved in an organisation called Leicester Expressive Arts based in the LUCA centre between 1985 and 1990. During the time at the LUCA Centre our organisation, Leicester Expressive Arts, first consisted of three […] of organisation […] and a few others. As a consequence of us moving into the LUCA Centre, we formed an organisation called Leicester Expressive Arts, which had a membership of 250 people. We started our organisation by organising dance events. From dance events we moved onto organising Caribbean evenings at the Phoenix Theatre and the Haymarket Theatre. All the talent that took part in these events were Leicester based. Most of the people that actually took part had never performed before. We were able to provide them with a platform to express our cultural [...] through music, dance and drama. As we developed we then had more people join the organisation who were visual artists, sculptors, painters, spoken word, lyricists, a cross se
Dennis Dominator bus moving.
No full text46 second recording of the sounds made by a Dennis Dominator bus, including engine sounds and brake sounds
Dennis Dominator bus engine starting up.
No full text38 second sound recording of a Dennis Dominator bus engine starting up and ticking over
Birds singing and the wind blowing at St. George's.
No full textA 37 second recording of the sound of birds singing and the wind blowing at St. George's Church
Pfister and Vogel stonework.
No full textColour photograph of the former Pfister and Vogel leather factors building showing detailed carved stonework and leaded windows. The building has been redeveloped and is now apartments